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Towards the decipherment of Thamudic D: an identification of new glyphs and phoneme values

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Abstract

The Thamudic D script is only partially deciphered. This article attempts to advance our understanding of the script by identifying all the Thamudic D glyphs and their phonemic values with varying degrees of certainty. It also discusses the major writing formulae associated with this script type and offers a few notes on the language it inscribes.

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Ancient North ArabianPre-Islamic ArabiaOld ArabicThamudicDecipherment

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Bulletin of SOAS , Volume 88 , Issue 2 , June 2025 , pp. 195 - 222
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of SOAS University of London

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